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On Wednesday, during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, President Donald Trump weighed in on the reason why he hasn’t yet watched the video of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police.
“Well, the George Floyd case, nothing has to be said,” said Trump. “I watched that, I couldn’t really watch it for that long a period of time, it was over eight minutes, and who could watch that?”
He added that it was a “different kind of a case,” and that the police officer responsible could have “some big problems, there’s no question about it.”
He also suggested that the Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta might have been more reasonable, because the officer “heard a gunshot and saw a flash” — which not even the officer himself is actually alleging happened.
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June 18, 2020
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were ripped to shreds by “Late Show” comedian Stephen Colbert during his Wednesday night show.
Colbert, who cracked jokes before interviewing Kamala Harris, said that Pence tried to blame the rising infection numbers on the increase in testing.
“Because for Pence, the real disease is knowledge,” said Colbert. “And you can catch it through the eyes and the ears, so he’s going to need a new mask.”
The host addressed Pence’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he tried desperately to claim, “There isn’t a coronavirus second wave.”
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June 17, 2020
The novel coronavirus is twice as infectious within households than similar diseases such as SARS, with a substantial number of additional infections spreading before a COVID-19 sufferer shows any symptoms, according to modelling released Thursday.
Researchers based in China and the United States said their findings could have profound impacts on reducing the number of new infections as the pandemic progresses.
Using data on 350 COVID-19 patients and nearly 2,000 of their close contacts in the city of Guangzhou, China, the researchers estimated the virus’ “secondary attack rate” — that is, the probability that an infected person transmits the disease to someone else.
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Scientists had nicknamed it “The Thing” — a mysterious football-sized fossil discovered in Antarctica that sat in a Chilean museum awaiting someone who could work out just what it was.
Now, analysis has revealed the mystery fossil to be a soft-shelled egg, the largest ever found, laid some 68 million years ago, possibly by a type of extinct sea snake or lizard.
The revelation ends nearly a decade of speculation and could change thinking about the lives of marine creatures in this era, said Lucas Legendre, lead author of a paper detailing the findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
